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Spitzer Space Telescope Windows Infarction

  • Posted by jeff
  • June 22, 2008

I was cruising around the Spitzer Space Telescope site and found a page that had a screen capture of a piece of software that continuously shows a prediction of the space craft’s position within the solar system. I noticed an oddly familiar dialog on the thumbnail view so I clicked on it to find this:

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UDF median on Windows

  • Posted by jeff
  • January 30, 2008

On my current project we use MySQL as part of our stack and I needed to setup MySQL on my Windows XP workstation for development. A custom feature of the database is the use of a MySQL UDF (User Defined Function), discussed in depth here, here and lots of other places.
We had a pre-compiled Windows [...]